Product Designer, Contract (Senior–Design Director)
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JobgetherDigital product design
Based in the United StatesContractSenior
Salary61 - 120 USD per hour
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- FigmaProduct designPrototyping
Requirements
- Significant professional experience designing digital products, services, platforms, or complex responsive web experiences.
- A portfolio demonstrating visual craft, UX, systems thinking, and the ability to turn complex problems or journeys into cohesive digital experiences.
- Deep proficiency in Figma, including components, variables, libraries, prototyping, and structured documentation.
- Experience creating, scaling, and maintaining practical design systems.
- Ability to translate strategy, information architecture, product requirements, or creative direction into connected experiences.
- Strong understanding of accessibility and inclusive design across devices, interfaces, and user contexts.
- Ability to work independently, own a defined workstream, manage priorities, and communicate proactively.
- Experience collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary teams and clients.
- Presentation and communication skills to explain design decisions to design and non-design audiences.
- For Design Director-level opportunities, experience providing hands-on creative leadership, mentoring designers, setting design direction, and guiding senior client stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Design digital product experiences across desktop, mobile, and responsive environments.
- Translate user journeys, product requirements, strategic inputs, and creative direction into flows, interfaces, interactions, and prototypes.
- Develop, evolve, and document scalable component-based design systems, reusable patterns, specifications, and assets.
- Apply design systems across templates and digital surfaces, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement.
- Balance user needs, brand expression, technical feasibility, accessibility, and delivery constraints in design decisions.
- Collaborate with designers, strategists, technologists, producers, engineers, and client teams throughout design and delivery.
- Present work in internal and client reviews, explaining design rationale and connecting decisions to user and business objectives.
- Partner with engineering teams during implementation to maintain design quality and deliver the intended experience.
- Manage scoped design workstreams independently, maintaining momentum, quality, communication, and alignment.
- For Design Director-level assignments, guide workstream direction, mentor designers, set a high design-quality bar, and build relationships with senior client stakeholders.
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